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RE: Beidou 2G F-2 Satellite

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BEIDOU
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2 36287 020.4359 357.2352 7295268 180.1932 179.4203 02.29488181    11

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China successfully launched another Compass satellite into geostationary orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwestern Sichuan province at about 0:12 a.m. Beijing Time on Sunday (January 17).
It was the third satellite in the second-generation Beidou program that China has launched for its GNSS system, following a middle earth orbit (MEO) spacecraft sent up April 14, 2007 and a GEO spacecraft last April 18
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The Chang Zheng-3C rocket with the Beidou 2G F-2 (Compass) navigation satellite was successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at 16:12 GMT, 16th January, 2010.

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BEIDOU
1 36287U 10001A   10016.90988686 -.00001001  90456-6  00000+0 0    27
2 36287 020.4619 357.3342 7293409 179.9915 180.3080 02.29430481    05

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The third Beidou satellite will lift off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province at "an appropriate moment soon", atop a Long March-3C carrier, the centre said on Friday in a statement.
Both the rocket and the satellite are now in sound condition and ready for launch, it said.
A new government-run website, www.beidou.gov.cn, was also launched on Friday.
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A Chang Zheng-3C rocket with the Beidou 2G F-2 (Compass) navigation satellite is scheduled to launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre on the 16th January, 2010.

China will launch more navigation satellites next year to develop the second-generation Beidou satellite navigation system - China's equivalent to the US GPS navigation system - an official said.
The country aims to complete the second-generation Beidou system by 2011, a director with the China National Administration of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Application said yesterday at a conference commemorating five years of the Beidou system's operation.
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